Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

There has been a lot said on the other side in relation to 457s, and I want to go into some of the detail because it is instructive to understand what drives the modern Labor Party, remembering that this is not the Labor Party of Hawke and Keating; this is the Labor Party of Shorten and Plibersek. It is backward looking and it is completely reliant on the union movement. This government has been criticised for the use of the 457 visa program, but the reality is that there are less people today who use the 457 visa program than when Labor was in government.

That shows the hypocrisy of Labor in their approach to all of these issues. They are running around with a scare campaign on the free trade agreement with China and with the agreement that the trade minister arrived at last week. These agreements will result in hundreds of thousands of jobs in this country. Over a period of time, the economic benefit to our country will be unbelievable—

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

Mr Conroy interjecting—

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